[Magdalen] Shingles

[Clarissa Canning]

I may consider it myself, I heard too many times the vaccine was not
helpful.  I hate to get shingles. My 25 yr old girl has nerve damage from
them on her leg.
HER C pox were mild as a baby. She is getting somewhat smarter about her
health now.

On Jul 14, 2016 3:55 PM, "Marilyn Cepeda" <mcepeda514 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thankfully mine too were mild!
>
> On Wednesday, July 13, 2016, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > When I was an AIDS volunteer, one of our dear friends had died just as I
> > was diagnosed with a very mild case of shingles and was advised to stay
> > away from people with compromised immune systems. I went to the funeral
but
> > stayed well away from the others -- until they came over and embraced me
> > and wouldn't hear of me staying apart.  Their memory is eternal.
> >
> > Marion, a pilgrim
> >
> >
> > On 7/11/2016 12:28 AM, Grace Cangialosi wrote:
> >
> >> My understanding is that you can't catch shingles from another person;
> >> it's
> >> the result of having the virus in your body from a bout with chicken
pox.
> >> OTOH, a person who hasn't been vaccinated against chicken pox can
catch it
> >> from a person with shingles.  When I had shingles, I was careful not to
> >> visit one set of grandchildren, because they had not had the chickenpox
> >> vaccine.
> >>
> >> They subsequently caught chicken pox from a child who was also not
> >> vaccinated, and three of the four of them were extremely sick. Now, of
> >> course, they will all be at risk for shingles at some ponit in their
> >> lives...
> >>
> >> On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 12:22 AM, Christopher Hart <cervus51 at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> I caught it from my father who had shingles.
> >>>
> >>> On Sun, Jul 10, 2016 at 10:05 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
> >>> magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> In a message dated 7/10/2016 9:34:43 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> >>>> cervus51 at gmail.com writes:
> >>>>
> >>>> I got  the shingles vaccine a couple or 3 years ago. My insurance
> >>>> covered
> >>>> it
> >>>> as I  was already over 60 years of age.  TBTG.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Mine was covered by insurance, too.
> >>>>
> >>>> I don't know when the chickenpox vaccinations started.  I can still
> >>>>
> >>> recall
> >>>
> >>>> getting chickenpox, and I recall making my own diagnosis (a little
> >>>> dermatologist in the making?), walking up to the study hall monitor
> >>>> "Sit down and shut up!" Muller, and telling her I had chickenpox and
> >>>> needed to head home.  I was a junior in high school  (1954).   I
believe
> >>>> the isolation was a week then.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> David S.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>>
> >>> Christopher Hart
> >>>
> >>> List Mail Address: cervus51 at gmail.com
> >>> Personal Mail: cervus at veritasliberat.net
> >>> Twitter: @cervus51
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >
>
> --
> Marilyn (Owens, Palmero) Cepeda